Word: transmits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined with Martin Marietta, the aerospace manufacturer, to bid against AT&T for an enormous prize: a federal telecommunications contract worth some $4.5 billion over ten years. AT&T has been the leading contractor on the account since 1963. The contract, which involves upgrading the Government phone system to transmit data and handle video conferencing, will be awarded late next year...
Feel a mosquito biting at your leg? Be careful: it might be America's new pest, the Asian tiger. First discovered in the U.S. nine months ago in Houston, the mosquito can transmit dangerous viral infections, including dengue fever and the La Crosse virus. The tiger has since been found in three states besides Texas: Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee...
...strength of dancer Judith Jamison. Ailey created the dance "for all Black women everywhere--especially our mothers," and it moves slowly and somberly from expressions of anguish and suffering to ones of triumph, hope and energy. Although Manning executed the steps beautifully, she lacked the stage presence necessary to transmit the messages implicit in "Cry"--fear, anger and the struggle of Black women...
...nucleus. It will be followed by another Soviet craft, two Japanese probes, and the European Space Agency's Giotto, which will make the most daring pass of all. On March 13, Giotto will swoop within about 300 miles of Halley's nucleus and--if it survives the encounter --transmit the first close-up pictures of a comet's nucleus ever seen...
...hold onto their initial identities. This narrative that has finally found its own internal logic grows stronger in the fourth and last tales, "The Tower of Glass" and "Lost and Found." The text reasserts its power, but uses the power to defy and oppress the reader rather than to transmit the author's ideas...